Chapter Summaries

Hiashi tried to persuade Hizashi to surrender, but Hizashi challenged the Hyuga Clan’s Caged Bird Seal and the Main Family’s control over the Branch Family. The brothers began fighting in the arena, leaving their match underway.

• Hiashi urged Hizashi to admit defeat, claiming Kaze was using him to divide the Hyuga Clan, and offered to let his actions go unpunished.
• Hizashi asked whether Hiashi would free Neji from the Caged Bird Seal, but Hiashi denied that Neji was more talented and defended the Main Family’s decisions.
• Hizashi declared that the Caged Bird Seal and the Main Family’s beliefs oppressed the Branch Family, then vowed to sever the Branch Family’s fate.
• Hiashi rejected Hizashi’s words as Kaze’s influence and attacked him with chakra gathered into lion-shaped hands.
• Hizashi met Hiashi’s palm strike, and the brothers activated their Byakugan as their clash shook the arena.

Hiashi discovered that Kaze had removed Hizashi’s Caged Bird Seal, but he still fought to protect the Main Family’s status. After Hiashi struck Hizashi with Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms, Hizashi struggled back to his feet, leaving the match undecided.

• Hiashi realized he could no longer see the Caged Bird Seal on Hizashi, and Hizashi said Kaze had removed it.
• Hizashi struck Hiashi while he was distracted, and Shiranami failed to activate the seal against him.
• Hizashi removed his forehead bandages and challenged Hiashi to fight at full strength.
• Hiashi used Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms to seal Hizashi’s acupoints and knock him down.
• Gekko Hayate refused to declare Hiashi the winner when Hizashi began getting back up.

Hizashi used a beastman transformation taught by Kaze to fight back against Hiashi despite having his Chakra points sealed. The arena’s spectators were left wondering how Kaze had taught him such a powerful technique in only three days.

• Hiashi claimed Hizashi could not win because he had sealed the points that produced Chakra, and accused him of betraying the Main Family.
• Hizashi unleashed the power he had gained from the “Chakra” Fruit and transformed into a three-meter-tall tiger-like beastman.
• Hizashi’s roar forced Hiashi to retreat and stunned Gekko Hayate and the Hyuga elders, who could not understand how he had used a technique without Chakra.
• Kaze admitted he had taught Hizashi the Beast Transformation Technique and taunted the Hyuga elders about their secret arts.
• Fugaku, Hiruzen Sarutobi, the other leaders, and the arena spectators were shocked by Hizashi’s newfound power and Kaze’s apparent ability to teach it in three days.

Hizashi used his Devil Fruit-enhanced strength and the Chakra-coating technique Kaze taught him to break Hiashi’s Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven and send him flying. Hiashi attacked again, but Hizashi easily dodged and slammed him into the ground.

• Hizashi charged Hiashi and punched through his Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven by coating his fist with Chakra.
• Hizashi’s blow struck Hiashi in the chest, sent him nearly eighty feet, and left him shocked by Hizashi’s newfound power.
• Hizashi credited Kaze’s fighting technique and assumed it was common among the Uchiha Clan.
• Hiashi rose and attacked Hizashi with Gentle Fist, forming lion heads from Chakra around his hands.
• Hizashi dodged Hiashi’s attack and hammered him into the ground with a blow to the back.

Hizashi defeated Hiashi in under three minutes by unleashing the power of the Chakra Fruit, leaving Hiashi unconscious and the spectators stunned. Gekko Hayate declared Hizashi the victor, while the Hyuga Main Family Elders faced the consequences of Hiashi’s crushing loss.

• Hizashi broke Hiashi’s arm and drove him into a massive crater with a final punch, knocking him unconscious.
• Hizashi returned to human form and told Gekko Hayate to announce the result.
• Gekko Hayate declared Hizashi the victor, shocking the crowd and prompting jeers from spectators who had bet on Hiashi.
• Kaze and the Uchiha Clan applauded Hizashi while the Hyuga Main Family Elders reacted with anger and disbelief.

After Hizashi defeated Hiashi, Kazekage stopped Shirotsuna from torturing the Hyuga Branch Family and used the match to expose their treatment to the arena. He called for the Caged Bird Seal and the division between the Main and Branch Families to end.

• Hizashi defeated Hiashi, prompting the Hyuga Branch Family to cheer while Shirotsuna rebuked them.
• Shirotsuna activated the Caged Bird Seal, but Kazekage rushed over and punched him, interrupting the seal's effects.
• Kazekage revealed that he had planted a Genjutsu trigger that made Shirotsuna activate the seal when enraged.
• Kazekage told the Branch Family they were human beings, not slaves, then addressed the arena as Captain of the Leaf Village Police Force and an Elite Jonin.
• Kazekage explained the Caged Bird Seal and argued that Hizashi's victory disproved the claim that Branch Family members lacked talent.
• Kazekage called for the Caged Bird Seal and the division between the Hyuga Main Family and Branch Family to become part of Konoha's history.

Kaze turned the crowd against the Hyuga Main Family and won the Branch Family’s support by calling for the Caged Bird Seal to be abolished. Hiruzen Sarutobi, unable to oppose the public sentiment, announced that Konoha’s leadership agreed the seal should fade into history.

• Konoha villagers and Branch Family members rallied behind Kaze’s call to abolish the Caged Bird Seal.
• Elder Hifumi realized Kaze had orchestrated the match and surrounding events to undermine the Main Family, and saw that the Branch Family was ready to resist.
• Kaze handed Hiruzen Sarutobi the microphone and asked him to address the crowd.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi said Kaze’s argument had merit and announced that Konoha’s leadership believed the Caged Bird Seal should fade into history.

After Hiruzen Sarutobi abolished the Hyuga Clan's Caged Bird Seal, Kaze was hailed for his reforms and ideals. Talk spread among Konoha's spectators that he should become the Fifth Hokage, leaving Fugaku to wonder whether this, too, had been part of Kaze's plan.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi announced the abolition of the Hyuga Clan's Caged Bird Seal, prompting cheers and leaving the Main Family elders devastated.
• Kakashi, Might Guy, Asuma Sarutobi, and Kurenai Yuhi praised Kaze's achievements and discussed him as a potential Fifth Hokage.
• Kakashi said that Kaze might already be the village's ideal Fifth Hokage, and Might Guy and Asuma Sarutobi agreed.
• Nearby spectators overheard them and began discussing Kaze as the next Hokage, citing his strength, reforms, and political ideals.
• Fugaku heard the growing calls for Kaze to become Hokage and wondered whether the idea was part of Kaze's plan.

After Hizashi’s victory and the Branch Family’s support strengthened Kaze’s influence in Konoha, the Land of Fire’s Daimyo summoned him for an audience. Hiruzen accompanied Kaze to the Daimyo’s residence, where Kaze reflected on the Daimyo’s immense wealth and authority.

• Hizashi thanked Kaze for helping free the Branch Family from the Caged Bird Seal and vowed to support him.
• The Hyuga Branch Family rallied behind Hizashi, while Kaze’s reforms and achievements won him growing support throughout Konoha.
• Hiruzen recognized that Kaze and the Uchiha Clan had become too powerful to contain and worried that the Daimyo’s audience could raise Kaze’s influence further.
• Hiruzen summoned Anbu to accompany Kaze and traveled with him to meet the Daimyo of the Land of Fire.
• Kaze and Hiruzen reached the Daimyo’s lavish residence, and Kaze questioned why Daimyo held such wealth and authority.

Kaze met the Land of Fire's Daimyo, who offered him a cash reward for helping Konoha. Kaze dismissed the money as inadequate and challenged the Daimyo over whether he would receive anything more.

• Hiruzen brought Kaze to meet the Daimyo in a guarded reception room, where Kaze noted the security measures and their seating arrangement.
• The Daimyo praised Kaze for resolving the conflict with Kumogakure and handed him a case containing roughly twenty to twenty-five million ryo.
• Kaze inspected the cash without showing excitement, leaving the Daimyo puzzled until he clarified that it was Kaze's reward.
• Kaze said the reward was too small given that he had also repelled Kirigakure and killed the Raikage and Mizukage.
• Hiruzen urged Kaze to show respect for the Daimyo's reward, but Kaze asked whether there was anything else beyond the money.

Kaze rejected the Daimyo’s monetary reward and demanded to become Konoha’s next Hokage, arguing that his strength and achievements made him the best candidate. When the Daimyo refused, Kaze attacked his guards, leaving Hiruzen shocked as the confrontation escalated.

• Kaze shoved the Daimyo’s case of money back across the table and declared that he would become Konoha’s next Hokage.
• Kaze cited his strength, his actions against Root and Danzo, and his removal of the Hyuga Clan’s Caged Bird Seal as reasons he deserved the position.
• Hiruzen urged Kaze to wait because he was young, but Kaze countered that Minato Namikaze and Yagura had become leaders at young ages.
• The Daimyo refused to appoint Kaze, and Kaze used his lightning speed to appear in front of him.
• Kaze struck two guards with electricity, causing their Kunai to pierce their throats, and the Daimyo fell from his chair in terror.
• Hiruzen sprang up and shouted at Kaze for killing the Daimyo’s guards.

Kaze killed the Daimyo’s guards and used his Sharingan to control the Daimyo, then restrained Hiruzen and prepared to use Kotoamatsukami on him. Hiruzen remained trapped against the wall as Kaze began a Summoning Technique.

• Kaze killed the Daimyo’s two guards and placed the Daimyo under Genjutsu.
• Kaze blocked sound from leaving the room and told Hiruzen he would make the guards appear to have attempted to assassinate the Daimyo.
• Hiruzen realized Kaze planned to control the Daimyo but refused to help him conceal the incident or become Hokage.
• Kaze decided to use the chance to cast Kotoamatsukami on Hiruzen rather than wait years for another opportunity.
• Kaze used lightning to pin Hiruzen to the wall and paralyze him, then slammed his hands onto the table and called the Summoning Technique.

Kaze used Shisui’s left Mangekyō to cast Kotoamatsukami on Hiruzen Sarutobi, then steered the response to an assassination attempt so the Daimyo would support him as the next Hokage. The chapter ended with the Daimyo asking Hiruzen what he thought of Kaze succeeding him.

• Kaze summoned a crow carrying Shisui’s left eye and used Kotoamatsukami on Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• The crow vanished, and Hiruzen stopped the guards from attacking Kaze, telling them Kaze had saved the Daimyo from assassins.
• The Daimyo recalled Kaze protecting him and ordered the Leaf Village Police Force to handle his security while the attack was investigated.
• Kaze suggested Kumogakure had orchestrated the attack and proposed replacing the Daimyo’s guards with police force ninjas.
• The Daimyo praised Kaze’s strength and achievements, then asked Hiruzen whether Kaze should become Konoha’s next Hokage.

The Daimyo, under Kaze’s Genjutsu, proposed making the fifteen-year-old Kaze a candidate for Hokage if he captured Orochimaru. Kaze accepted the mission because he planned to use Orochimaru to obtain the Nine-Tails and secure his path to becoming Hokage.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi recognized Kaze’s strength, political skill, and service to Konoha, though he was surprised by the Daimyo’s proposal.
• The Daimyo’s advisers objected to appointing Kaze because of his age, so the Daimyo suggested naming him a Hokage candidate after he completed a mission.
• The Daimyo proposed that Kaze capture Orochimaru, a dangerous rogue ninja who had stolen forbidden jutsu and evaded Konoha for years.
• The Daimyo’s subordinates accepted the proposal, unaware that the mission was part of Kaze’s plan to gain Orochimaru’s help obtaining the Nine-Tails.
• Kaze agreed to capture Orochimaru and return him to Konoha for a fair trial.

Hiruzen Sarutobi decided to support Kaze as Konoha’s Fifth Hokage, despite Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu’s shock at his sudden change of heart. After returning to the Uchiha Compound, Kaze asked Uchiha Setsuna whether he could trust him.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu that the Daimyo had chosen Kaze as Konoha’s new Hokage.
• Hiruzen defended Kaze’s record and said he would step back to guide him as Fifth Hokage.
• Hiruzen explained that Hizashi Hyuga’s victory over Hiashi had made him reconsider his prejudices about the Uchiha Clan.
• Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu realized Hiruzen and the Daimyo both supported Kaze’s appointment.
• Kaze returned to the Uchiha Compound and asked Uchiha Setsuna if he could trust him.

Kaze told Setsuna that he had used Genjutsu to turn the Daimyo into his puppet so the Daimyo would support him becoming Hokage. He asked Setsuna to stay by the Daimyo’s side and protect the Genjutsu from being undone.

• Kaze visited Setsuna at home and asked whether Setsuna would trust him completely.
• Kaze told Setsuna that the Daimyo had refused to choose an Uchiha as the next Hokage.
• Setsuna assumed Kaze planned a coup against Hiruzen Sarutobi, but Kaze rejected the idea.
• Kaze revealed that he had used Genjutsu to control the Daimyo, shocking Setsuna.
• Kaze asked Setsuna to guard the Daimyo and ensure that no one undid the Genjutsu.

Hiruzen Sarutobi announced that he would retire as Hokage and summoned Kaze to stand beside him as Konoha’s apparent Fifth Hokage candidate. The gathered ninja, especially the Hyuga Main Family and Uchiha Clan, were stunned to see Kaze, while Fugaku Uchiha struggled to believe what he was witnessing.

• Kaze secretly told Setsuna that he controlled the Land of Fire Daimyo with Genjutsu and appointed Setsuna to guard him using selected Uchiha members.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi summoned Konoha’s ninja and clan members to the Hokage Building three days later.
• Hiruzen reminded the crowd that he had promised to retire once Konoha found a suitable Hokage candidate.
• The gathered ninja speculated about possible successors, including Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Kaze.
• Hiruzen called Kaze to stand beside him, shocking the crowd and leaving Fugaku Uchiha wide-eyed.

Hiruzen Sarutobi announced that fifteen-year-old Kaze would succeed him as Hokage, stunning Konoha and filling the Uchiha with pride. As the crowd reacted, the Hyuga former Main Family seethed over Kaze’s rise, while his supporters celebrated.

• Fugaku and Uchiha Kiyoshi confirmed that Hiruzen had named Kaze the next Hokage and realized he had become the youngest Hokage in history.
• Uchiha clan members celebrated Kaze’s appointment and praised his achievements and the Daimyo’s support.
• Konoha’s shinobi reacted with shock, envy, and hopes that Kaze would lead the village to greater heights.
• Hizashi and former Hyuga Branch Family members rejoiced, while Shiranami, Hifumi, and other former Main Family elders resented Kaze’s rise.
• Kaze looked over the crowd and smiled as the reactions spread below him.

After Hiruzen Sarutobi announced that Kaze would become Konoha’s Fifth Hokage, Kaze addressed the village and shared his dream of bringing peace to the entire shinobi world. The gathered ninja applauded his pledge to work with them, leaving Kaze’s appointment welcomed by the crowd.

• Might Guy, Kakashi, Asuma, and Kurenai Yuhi reacted with joy and astonishment as Hiruzen Sarutobi announced Kaze as the Fifth Hokage.
• Kakashi congratulated Kaze, while Asuma and Kurenai Yuhi reflected on how rapidly he had risen from Chunin to Hokage.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi stepped back and gave Kaze the stage to speak to Konoha’s ninja.
• Kaze recalled losing his parents in the Third Shinobi World War and said that loss had inspired his dream of a world without war or pain.
• Kaze asked Konoha’s ninja to work with him toward peace and protecting the village and the Land of Fire.
• The gathered ninja applauded Kaze, and even Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu acknowledged his ideal of peace.

After becoming Konoha’s Fifth Hokage, Kaze outlined plans to develop the Uchiha Compound into a major entertainment and commercial center and organize a Technical Development Bureau. He then announced that he would leave the village to capture Orochimaru, despite his clan’s objections.

• Kaze celebrated his appointment as Fifth Hokage with his allies and ordered Uchiha Kiyoshi to gather all Uchiha who could activate the Sharingan at Naka Shrine.
• At the clan meeting, Kaze rejected moving the Uchiha Compound back to the village center and proposed building parks, restaurants, cinemas, and casinos around its current location.
• Kaze assigned two women to oversee the development work and proposed creating a Technical Development Bureau after capturing a Missing-nin.
• Kaze named Orochimaru as his target and explained that he wanted Orochimaru’s knowledge of the Reaper Death Seal, Sage Techniques, Sharingan research, and human experiments.
• Fugaku, Kiyoshi, and the other Uchiha urged Kaze not to risk leaving the village, but Kaze insisted he was the only one capable of bringing Orochimaru back and entrusted the clan to Fugaku.